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Almost every two-sided marketplace struggles with bringing on enough supply and/or bringing on enough demand. Surprisingly, Facebook didn’t. We already had both buyers and sellers, but we weren’t succeeding in making the connection between the two. As long as we stayed within Groups, we could not address this issue.

If you ask any responsible parent... 'Would you like your kid to have the same job you do, or would you like them to have a better job?' ... Ask a parent who works in a blue collar profession. Ask a parent who works on an assembly line or works in the frontline of manual labor, the harder work. 'Do you want your kid to be doing that, or would you r... See more

Back when I was feeling a imless and lost I used to read and reread something Cheryl Strayed wrote about writing: The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours reading poetry and story collections and novels and dead people’s diaries and wondering abou... See more

Another point of evidence is the lack of luxury software products. People spend absurd amounts of money on jewellery, handbags and cars, but I can’t think of a piece of software with an even remotely similar price tag. Sure, people have tried to sell $999 apps but those never took off.